Day: December 10, 2014

Fox News Host Says Obama Administration Is Anti-Awesome

Buck Banks

The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome. We’ve closed the book on torture, and we’ve stopped doing it. And the reason they want to have this discussion is not to show how awesome we are. This administration wants to have this discussion to show us how we’re not awesome.

— Fox News co-host Andrea Tantaros, quoted by Gawker.

Bush Administration Paid Torture Trainers $81 Million

Buck Banks

$81 million

Amount the Bush administration paid the CIA contractors who helped develop and operate the “enhanced interrogation techniques” the agency used on terror suspects, including waterboarding, NBC News reports. “The contract was for more than $180 million, but the contractors had only received $81 million when their contract was terminated in 2009.”

Turn the South Into a ‘Free-Market Jesus Paradise’

Buck Banks

With Landrieu’s departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don’t need it anyway.

— Michael Tomasky, writing in the Daily Beast.